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enNew report reveals development partnerships for SDGs still weak in human rights-based approacheshttp://iboninternational.org/news/report-reveals-dev-partnerships-SDGs-weak-rights-based-approaches
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<p class="font_8" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><em><strong>Originally posted in the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness <a href="http://www.csopartnership.org/edc-resources-hrba">website</a></strong></em></span><span style="font-size:14px;"><em><strong>. Get the report below. </strong></em></span></p>
<p class="font_8" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong><u>Manila, 9 March 2018</u></strong> – Development cooperation actors must ensure human rights-based approaches (HRBA) particularly in working to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), or else programmes and projects risk grave consequences including loss of shelter, hindrances to livelihood opportunities, and health hazards <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">–</span></span> this is according to the latest report published by the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) and edited by the IBON Institute for International Development.</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The report is a collection of critical papers written by 14 CPDE member organizations. In their contributions, members analysed how human rights are upheld or otherwise disregarded in policies and practices, as seen in various projects and multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs).</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Due to the increased levels of resources needed to foot the SDGs, the 2030 Agenda calls for a “revitalised Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”. Specifically, SDG 17 calls for governments and stakeholders to revitalise this Global Partnership through development co-operation, mobilising finance, technology, capacity building, open trade and policy coherence. MSPs will be critical in rallying these resources until 2030.</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The CPDE research, however, revealed that lack of meaningful civil society participation in MSPs and the dearth of effective redress mechanisms to ensure duty bearers' accountability to rights-holders are both gaps in existing development partnerships.</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Only 8 donor-countries accounted for 78% aid allocated to human rights purposes and 71% allocated to participation and civil society, indicating poor support of donors for HRBA.</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Although advocated for in United Nations statements and particularly in the Agenda 2030, only a few countries – regardless of whether they are donors or recipients of aid – are known to implement HRBAs in their development policies.</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today, over half of the world’s population live in countries that have not ratified conventions ensuring human rights such as the freedom of association or the right to organise.</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The CPDE report also shows why the traditional approach to development partnerships is failing to bridge the gap in development between rich and poor, and how adopting an HRBA is the way forward to achieving effective development co-operation. The in-depth report features studies <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">from Latin America, Africa, South-East Asia and even global bodies on development cooperation, that look into</span></span> the absence or presence of HRBA <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">on a number of development areas </span></span>and its effects on project outcomes -- especially on communities.</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img alt="" class="media-image" height="595" style="width: 620px; height: 470px;" width="785" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://iboninternational.org/sites/ibon/files/neolib_0.png" /><span style="font-size:12px;">From the <a href="http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9f29ee_c74f07d23cbd4195bddcbff43b706e8b.pdf">Frequently-Asked Questions on HRBA</a> by CPDE. Infographics are also available <a href="http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9f29ee_3a69a7a19d9b46b58a40d13674f1688a.pdf">here</a>.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="font_8" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">HRBA represents a paradigm shift crucial in achieving the SDGs as it affirms the agency of the poor and marginalised peoples to chart their own destiny by empowering them as rights-holders, not beneficiaries of charity, says the report.</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In summary, the report presents the following policy recommendations to reinforce rights-based partnerships for sustainable development:</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">1. Analyse human rights in the context of power relations;</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2. Empower rights-holders, especially women and the most marginalised, by fully respecting their right to organise;</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">3. Institutionalise participation of rights-holders at all levels of governance;</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">4. Allow local actors to take the lead in defining priorities and strategies for the development agenda;</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">5. Build the capacity of duty-bearers to fulfill human rights;</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">6. Enhance transparency of development partnerships;</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">7. Conduct rights-based audits; and</span></span></p>
<p class="font_8"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">8. Improve the accountability of duty-bearers by strengthening a range of mechanisms. ###</span></span></p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img alt="" class="media-image" height="480" style="width: 196px; height: 280px; margin: 5px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; float: right;" width="336" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.iboninternational.org/sites/ibon/files/styles/large/public/GSR-cover.png?itok=7LmNqBI8" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Five years since commitments were made in the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation, giant strides are still needed especially when it comes to donors’ and governments’ efforts toward targeted development outcomes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;">This is among the findings of the 2016 Global Synthesis Report on the <em>State of Development Co-operation: Checking the Core of Effectiveness.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;">The Report, published by the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) with editorial assistance from the IBON Institute for International Development (I3D), features 18 country-level studiesthat utilized interviews of key government and civil society actors, in addition to qualitative analyses, as they detailed the state of core commitments as seen from the ground.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;">The “core” mentioned in the title refers to the unfinished development effectiveness commitments of various development actors as embodied in the four “Busan principles:” 1) democratic ownership, or how national development plans should reflect the people’s, especially the poor and marginalized, interests; 2) focus on results; 3) inclusive partnerships, where civil society organizations (CSOs) are considered development partners; and 4) transparency and accountability.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;">From the Report, challenges remain in how donors can fulfill the commitments towards democratic ownership. This is given that donors still largely influence, in line with their interests, which purposes and programs aid would be used for. In some countries, there were also issues of access to information about the amount of aid provided, and for which purposes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;">The Synthesis Report also points to challenges for countries with issues of government corruption, which have experienced decreases in “programmable aid” from donors. Programmable aid is the amount which can be allotted by a country according to its own development priorities, and is essential to development results for the people.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;">On the commitment to recognize civil society organizations as development partners, issues remain in practice when it comes to ensuring that they are involved, effective (with access to relevant information) and have a fair influence in policy dialogues and consultations. This is related to State laws and practices that limit the activities of CSOs, which were raised as issues in several countries.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;">CPDE is an open platform that unites CSOs from around the world, striving to make development more effective by reshaping the global aid architecture and empowering CSOs working on the ground. The IBON Institute for International Developmentis the knowledge institute of IBON International, synthesizing the organisation’s wide range of knowledge on social policy, economics, and development. IBON International is part of CPDE and joins the platform in coming up with policy products and analysis on global policy discourses.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;">The 2016 Global Synthesis Report was launched last November 29, 2016 during the CSO Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, a day before the Second High-Level Meeting (HLM2) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC). To request copies of the 2016 Global Synthesis Report, kindly email <a href="mailto:publications@csopartnership.org">publications@csopartnership.org</a>. An electronic version of the Report can also be found at the <a href="http://csopartnership.org/2016-cpde-global-synthesis-report/">CPDE website</a>.</span></p>
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<p>In Nairobi, Kenya from 28 November to 1 December, 400 civil society organisations (CSOs) from all over the world gather for the Second High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) to assess progress on the commitments made by governments and other development actors to increase the sustainability and effectiveness of development cooperation efforts. CSOs warn that development cooperation may be progressively reduced to being a catalyst for private forms of financing, and that the use of public funds – and the accompanying standards of accountability and inclusiveness – will be weakened.</p>
<p>As the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) recently noted, “the current dominant discourse in the GPEDC is to unleash the potential of development co-operation to attract private investments.” This has also been evident in early drafts of the Nairobi Outcome Document, which emphasised public-private partnerships in particular.</p>
<p>Antonio Tujan Jr. of IBON International, a founding leader of CPDE, remarked, “Private capital has consistently shown itself to fail to substantively reduce inequality, or else further aggravate these inequalities. This is the experience of communities on the ground.”</p>
<p>“People are the real engine of economic growth. It’s the poor and the marginalised who are the proper target of development aid,” Tujan said.</p>
<p>There is a strong sense of alarm among CSOs committed to the aspiration that development should ‘leave no-one behind’. This is especially since there is little evidence showing that private investments can effectively raise public revenue, or make goods and services more accessible.</p>
<p>Lesotho’s experience in building, under a PPP deal, the Queen Mamohoto Memorial Hospital to replace a public hospital is a stark example. The contract has led to the government subsidizing management inefficiencies in the privately-run hospital, costing half the Ministry of Health’s budget, while the private partner has gained high returns under this arrangement. There are also reports of diminished accessibility of health services.</p>
<p>Moreover, although the latest draft of the Outcome Document made reference to ‘shrinking space’ – meaning the tightening restrictions imposed by governments and donors, among others, that have made it increasingly difficult for CSOs to contribute to development by capacitating marginalised citizens – there remain no clear declarations of intention to fully uphold previous commitments to provide an ‘enabling environment’ for CSOs.</p>
<p>The sense of alarm among CSOs is further heightened by the apparent move of the GPEDC to weaken its mandate, limiting its value to providing country-level data to the United Nations. “This would constitute a rejection of GPEDC’s distinctive traits, especially its inclusive multi-stakeholder character,” the CPDE statement warned.</p>
<p>With the growing emphasis on the private sector and diminishing emphasis on the inclusive nature of the GPEDC, CSOs have a difficult battle ahead of them if development effectiveness is to maintain its focus on poverty and inequality.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>IBON International Statement</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Second High-Level Meeting<br />Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation<br />Nairobi, Kenya, 30 November 2016</p>
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<p>The Busan Partnership asserts ‘investments and efforts must have a lasting effect on eradicating poverty and reducing inequality, on sustainable development, and on enhancing developing countries’ capacities, aligned with the priorities and policies set out by developing countries themselves’.<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title="" id="_ednref1">[i]</a></p>
<p>However, many of the ideas that circulate throughout the development cooperation deliberations represent obstacles to this. The most significant is the idea that ‘the core characteristics of the business sector – including the profit motive – can and do create mutual benefit by contributing to the public good’.<a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title="" id="_ednref2">[ii]</a> Protests by those displaced, impoverished or left behind by privatization contest this.</p>
<p>The protests point to the danger of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in development financing. While promoted by the World Bank Group and USAID, among others, there is little evidence of their development effectiveness.<a href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title="" id="_ednref3">[iii]</a> This is beside the risk of corruption and other negative impacts.<a href="#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title="" id="_ednref4">[iv]</a></p>
<p>In an example<a href="#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title="" id="_ednref5">[v]</a> from the Northeast Indian state of Manipur, the Chadong people have protested their imminent displacement from their own land by the construction, via PPP, of the Mapithel Dam. The protesters were brutally beaten and tortured by the Indian Reserve Battalion and Manipur Police.<a href="#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title="" id="_ednref6">[vi]</a></p>
<p>The emphasis on the business sector role in development, and the insufficient recognition of such problems, threaten the ‘leave no one behind’ mission. The risk of losing focus is apparent from the share of private sector development activities managed by development finance institutions, whose mandates conflict with a development focus, and which primarily promote donor interests.<a href="#_edn7" name="_ednref7" title="" id="_ednref7">[vii]</a></p>
<p>This points to the need either to cease channelling development funds through DFIs, or else to restructure them to include the participation of stakeholders including workers representatives (especially given the tendency of privatization to result in workforce reductions) and representatives of marginalized populations. There is a need for more democratic ownership over development efforts.</p>
<p>Under democratic ownership private sector contributions to development may be maximised: each country must arrive at a common understanding about the history and specificities of its domestic private sector, and on that basis, forge a democratic consensus on programs to develop domestic entrepreneurship and cooperatives with strong linkages to local agriculture, industry and services.<a href="#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="" id="_ednref8">[viii]</a></p>
<p>Democratic ownership is all the more important as profiteering is frequently supported by militarization, as suggested by the actions of the Indian Reserve Battalion and Manipur police. These actions are echoed globally, prominently as of late in the repression of the courageous Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and the murder of activist Berta Cáceres.</p>
<p>This military repression in Honduras came as the state eagerly embraced a neoliberal development model, under the slogan ‘Honduras is open for business’, and sought to attract foreign investors and finance institutions such as the World Bank—IFC for infrastructure development.</p>
<p>The development effectiveness agenda must confront both profiteering and militarization especially since by 2030 poverty will be concentrated in fragile states and sub-Saharan Africa.<a href="#_edn9" name="_ednref9" title="" id="_ednref9">[ix]</a></p>
<p>The Busan Partnership represents a commitment to ‘deepen, extend and operationalise democratic ownership of development policies and process’<a href="#_edn10" name="_ednref10" title="" id="_ednref10">[x]</a> and for governments and donors to provide an enabling environment for CSO promotion of human rights to help advance this aim.<a href="#_edn11" name="_ednref11" title="" id="_ednref11">[xi]</a></p>
<p>During the Second High-Level Meeting of the GPEDC, it must be remembered that mutual benefit is a function of democratic ownership. The profit motive by contrast yields one-sided benefits for the few. Put simply, democratic ownership means putting people over profit.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title="" id="_edn2">[ii]</a> GPEDC (2016), Third Draft of the Nairobi Outcome Document, Annex 1, §8.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ednref3" name="_edn3" title="" id="_edn3">[iii]</a> Jomo KS, Anis Chowdhury, Krishnan Sharma, and Daniel Platz (2016), ‘Public-Private Partnerships and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Fit for Purpose?’, DESA Working Paper No. 148, NY: UN.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ednref4" name="_edn4" title="" id="_edn4">[iv]</a> Maria José Romero (2015), <em>What Lies Beneath?: A Critical Assessment of PPPs and their Impact on Sustainable Development</em>, Brussels: Eurodad.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ednref5" name="_edn5" title="" id="_edn5">[v]</a> For other examples, see Mercado (2016), <em>Special Release: A Primer on PPPs in Food and Agriculture</em>, Quezon City: People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ednref6" name="_edn6" title="" id="_edn6">[vi]</a> Pushpa Koijam, Mamta Lukram and Jiten Yumnam (2016), <em>Assessment of ODA and the Implications on Indigenous People in Manipur</em>, Brussels: TUDCN.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ednref7" name="_edn7" title="" id="_edn7">[vii]</a> CPDE-TUDCN (2015), <em>Business Accountability for Development</em>, Brussels: TUDCN.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ednref8" name="_edn8" title="" id="_edn8">[viii]</a> See IBON International (2014), <em>IBON Primer on The Private Sector in Development: Privatization of Development Cooperation?</em>, Quezon City: IBON International.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ednref9" name="_edn9" title="" id="_edn9">[ix]</a> Homi Kharas and Andrew Rogerson (2012). <em>Horizon 2025: Creative Destruction in the Aid Industry</em>, London: Overseas Development Institute.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ednref10" name="_edn10" title="" id="_edn10">[x]</a> OECD (2011), ibid., §12.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ednref11" name="_edn11" title="" id="_edn11">[xi]</a> Ibid., §22(a).</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>By: Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS</p>
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<div>A day after 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) together with grassroots activists, faith-based groups and NGOs organized a side event at the margins of the UN summit to discuss pressing issues affecting the marginalized and frontline communities in the context of the post-2015 development agenda. </div>
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<div>"GDP does not tell us what is happening on the ground, it is the leaders from the margins and frontlines, like you, do! You tell the stories of the high cost that is being borne by our earth and our communities," renowned environmental activist <strong>Dr. Vandana Shiva</strong> said as she delivered the forum’s keynote address via video message. </div>
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<div><strong>From the margins and frontlines</strong></div>
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<div>The one-day activity gave space for grassroots organisations and activists to give first-hand testimonies on how they continue to struggle with injustices, inequities, exploitation, and the plunder of their natural resources.</div>
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<div><strong>Norma Maldonado</strong> from People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS), Guatemala, highlighted the irony of corporations that limit seed access for farmers and small-scale food producers that need it the most. “Unless the 'Global Goals' can guarantee food sovereignty, we cannot deliver on these targets,” said Norma. Food sovereignty is a concept that refers to the peoples right to healthy and culturally appropriate food as well as their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.</div>
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<div>"We want our seeds. Trade treaties ensure that companies are above people and that governments are into business and not governance. We are killing mother Earth to eat junk food. To grow food we need land but that is being grabbed by the companies”, said Norma.</div>
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<div><strong>Mazeda Akter Uddin</strong>, National Women's Coordinator at ASAAL (Alliance of South Asian American Labour) exposed the human rights violations faced by migrant women workers in New York. She lamented that many South Asian migrant women workers are being abused and discriminated, even within the USA. They are paid less and can be terminated without any reason or notice. </div>
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<div>Two civil society representatives - <strong>Eni Lestari</strong>, a migrant worker in Hong Kong and affiliated with International Migrants Alliance (IMA), and <strong>Nazma Akhter</strong>, a former garment worker from Bangladesh—who were duly selected to speak at the UN General Assembly but were later denied permission in the inter-governmental meetings-- also had their say in this Dialogue. </div>
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<div>"I am not surprised that I was not approved by the President of the General Assembly to speak. I do not have an uplifting story to tell that makes it possible to believe that poverty can be solved by 'scaling up' skills or credit or growth. Mine is not a story of rags to riches. My story is an unglamorous story of poverty, exploitation, migration and discrimination of millions of women around the world", said Eni.</div>
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<div><strong>Leave no one behind? </strong></div>
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<div><strong>Sara Flounders</strong>, who leads International Action Centre and is a noted writer based in the US, said, "The scourge of war and the enormous military expenses are missing from discussions around world's problems. In the period since Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were announced in 2000, US wars have been the greatest source of infrastructural destruction and cause of deaths of millions of refugees."</div>
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<div>When the US discusses sustainable development goals and environmental devastation, one thing is always left out of the discussions and that is US militarism. The Pentagon is the world's worst polluter of Green House gases and yet it has a blanket exemption in all climate agreements," added Sara.</div>
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<div><strong>Paul Quintos</strong>, from IBON International and Campaign for People's Goals, wondered why similar promises were being pledged again after 15 years. “The declaration says: Leave no one behind, but in reality people have been, and are being, pushed back,” Paul said.</div>
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<div>The whole-day event ended with a strong resolve from civil society to engage the implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and hold governments accountable to their commitments.</div>
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<div><em>Original article posted: <a href="http://www.citizen-news.org/2015/10/dialogues-for-justice-public-interest.html">http://www.citizen-news.org/2015/10/dialogues-for-justice-public-interes...</a></em></div>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Unpacking the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Strengthening Corporate Power in the name of Sustainable Development?</strong></p>
<div style="text-align: center;">Saturday 28th March, 8:30-11:00</div>
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<div>At the height of the global financial crisis in 2008, numerous commentators were keen to consign neoliberalism to the dustbin of history.</div>
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<div>Six years later, we are witnessing not the retreat of neoliberal globalization but its continued virulence. In short neoliberal globalization is continuing to restructure the world economy and social order to further expand and consolidate monopoly capitalist rule and safeguard the conditions for further capitalist accumulation.</div>
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<div>With the overwhelming evidence of persistent poverty, deepening inequality, ecological degradation and climate change accelerating under neoliberal globalization, elites are desperately proposing new pathways towards “sustainable development” that “leaves no one behind” and protects the planet all at the same time.</div>
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<div>In this context, the UN system is now engrossed with coming out with a new set of “Sustainable Development Goals” and a “Post-2015 development framework” to succeed the Millennium Development Goals which are supposed to have achieved by 2015. These new goals and new framework will be agreed by Heads of States and Governments at the Development Summit to be held at the UN Headquarters in September 2015. But will these new SDGs succeed where the MDGs failed?</div>
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<div>Will they really commit to a new paradigm of development or merely try to rescue the old paradigm by attempting to reconcile continuous growth in profits with eradicating poverty, narrowing inequality, and respecting the planet’s ecological limit?</div>
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<p>IBON International, CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness, Campaign for People's Goals for Sustainable Development, Arab NGO Network for Development, LDC Watch, Centre for Community Economics and Development Consultants' Society and Public Advocacy Initiatives for Rights and Values in India</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div><img alt="" class="media-image" height="300" style="width: 450px; height: 281px; margin: 5px; float: right;" width="480" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://iboninternational.org/sites/ibon/files/styles/large/public/Stocktaking%20of%20Progress%20on%20CSO%20Enabling%20Envi%20and%20CSO%20Accountability.jpg?itok=1kmY99vz" />The development cooperation landscape is fast evolving; ODA definition is being revisited, to capture the entire breadth of development finance flows and contributions of emerging development actors. Monitoring and accountability become all the more crucial given these developments, not to mention the role of CSOs in ensuring the quality of development partnerships post-2015 through human rights based approach.</div>
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<div>CPDE, ROA-AP, in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Development Effectiveness Facility, will hold a one-day forum on March 25 to stock-take progress on CSO Enabling Environment and CSO Accountability. </div>
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<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">By:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/authors/paul-quintos" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Paul Quintos</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>As 1st HLM of GPEDC opens in Mexico</em></p>
<p><strong>IBON International Updates</strong></p>
<div><strong>No. 2 – GEPDC </strong></div>
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<div><strong>At Mexico summit: CSOs warn vs development ‘exclusively for global elites’</strong></div>
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<div>MEXICO CITY, 15 April 2014 – As over 1,500 development leaders gathered here for the first High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), a global civil society platform warned that development must not “remain exclusive for the global elites while ordinary people are denied a life of dignity and justice.”</div>
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<div>Civil society organizations belonging to the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE), the open platform that participates in the GPEDC process, noted that principles for forging and pursuing a common development agenda had been arrived at in past summits, but implementation has been hampered by “lack of political will.”</div>
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<div>The two-day GEPDC summit aims to review global progress in making development co-operation more effective and agree on actions to further enhance development cooperation in the post-2015 global development framework.</div>
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<div>Heads of state and government, ministers, parliamentarians and leaders from international organisations, business, civil society and foundations joined Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría at the opening of the summit.</div>
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<div>The GPEDC was established in 1 December 2011 as an outcome of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness at Busan, Republic of Korea. The Busan Partnership Agreement laid down four principles for achieving common development goals: ownership of development priorities by developing countries, a focus on results, inclusive development partnerships, and transparency and accountability. But Busan’s most significant innovation is in having brought together all stakeholders to forge a common agenda and commit to hold one another accountable for implementing this agenda even as it was purely voluntary in nature. </div>
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<div>However, CSOs belonging to CPDE note the lack of political will to implement this agenda even two years after it was agreed. CPDE has been urging all stakeholders in the GEPDC-HLM to: </div>
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<div>1) Promote equitable and just development cooperation architecture</div>
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<div>2) Support CSOs as independent development actors and strengthen the enabling environment for civil society</div>
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<div>3) Apply appropriate regulatory framework to ensure that the private sector respects human rights and contributes to sustainable development outcomes</div>
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<div>4) Tackle tax avoidance and evasion, increase transparency and accountability</div>
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<div>5) Reform the governance of the GPEDC to reflect the inclusiveness principles of Busan</div>
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<div>6) Advance a renewed global partnership for sustainable development in the post-2015 period based on the principle of international solidarity.</div>
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<div>In his remarks during the Opening Session of the HLM, Antonio Tujan of IBON International and Co-chair of the CPDE, called on all partners to renew commitment for the Busan Agenda, particularly the commitments made in terms of increasing democratic ownership and providing an enabling environment for CSOs. </div>
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<div>Speaking at the First Panel on Inclusive Development Partnerships, Roselynn Musa of FEMNET decried the shrinking space for civil society as new legislation, regulations and practices of governments in many countries are restricting the operations of CSOs, curtailing their independence and freedom, and suppressing and even killing political activists and human rights defenders. </div>
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<div>Vitalice Meja of Reality of Aid-Africa likewise lamented that in many countries CSOs do not have access to vital information on development programs and activities which are necessary to hold governments and other power holders to account. </div>
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<div>Tetet Lauron of the Asia-Pacific Research Network remarked that “instead of upholding genuine multi-stakeholder involvement in setting the development agenda, there is a clear regressive trend towards privileging the corporate sector in development and development cooperation.” </div>
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<div>Erin Palomares of Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific explained that official development assistance (ODA) is now being “blended” with private finance as a way of reducing risks for private investors in infrastructure and other development projects. “Aid” is also being used to “encourage” policies that create an enabling environment for business, particularly for transnational corporations. </div>
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<div>Tujan warned that “if the aid system is used to promote the interests of investors over the human rights of the people, gender equality and environmental sustainability, then development will remain exclusive for the global elites while ordinary people are denied a life of dignity and justice.” ###</div>
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<div>CSO representatives from countries across the Asia Pacific expressed resounding concern last March 10-11 over the shrinking civil society space in the region in the recently concluded Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation on Building Evidence in Seoul, Korea.</div>
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<div>“Organisations who are into public policy or are into rights-based work are severely curtailed,” according to CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) Asia Focal Person Azra Sayeed as she discussed some of the challenges faced by Asia Pacific CSOs in defending enabling environment in law and in practice.</div>
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<div>“It just shows you the level of barriers that we really have to overcome just to ensure some amount of credibility to our work,” she added.</div>
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<div>The two-day meeting is part of a series of regional consultations that aim to gather inputs from all stakeholders to shape the substance of the first Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) High-Level Meeting (HLM) in Mexico this coming April.</div>
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<div><strong> Tied Aid and the Private Sector</strong></div>
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<div>Seeing the strong push for private sector involvement in development, CSO representatives signaled caution on the increasing role of multinational corporations and tied aid in closing spaces for civil society engagement. Private sector-led development is also an issue of urgent concern to Asia Pacific CSOs as businesses in the region often operate freely without regulatory mechanisms that ensure compliance to human rights standards.</div>
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<div>Jiten Yumnam of the Center for Research and Advocacy in Manipur (CRAM) reiterated the need to establish regulatory mechanisms that will ensure respect for human rights and democratic ownership of development results at the country level. He further noted the situation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in India that in many cases distort national priorities and disregard human rights standards.</div>
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<div>In his presentation, Yumnam made reference to large-scale dam and mining projects in India that lack public consultation and often lead to widespread displacement and violation of indigenous peoples’ rights. He also pointed out the limited space for communities to seek redress for human rights violations and emphasized the need to include civil society voices in determining local development priorities.</div>
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<div>“If private sectors are to be true partners in development, they must collaborate in ways that improve the social and economic rights of marginalized populations,” Yumnam added.</div>
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<div>Don Marut of YAKKUM, in his discussion on Middle Income Countries, cited cases in Indonesia where ‘aid is tied to giving up national resources’ only to be exploited by corporations that are based in donor countries. Furthermore, Ahmed Swapan of VOICE raised questions on how local industries in Bangladesh pay taxes thrice as much as those imposed on MNCs. Swapan also made reference to as much as US$10 billion of illicit capital flows in Bangladesh caused by big multinational corporations evading local taxes.</div>
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<div>“It’s a whole breadth of profit-making agencies who really want to ensure that they have easy access to our resources and to our lands, and that nobody creates any hurdles while they extract,” quipped Sayeed as she explained the alarming link between private sector involvement and shrinking space for civil society action.</div>
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<div><strong>‘Progress is undeniably slow’</strong></div>
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<div>Banking on the promises made in Busan, Asia Pacific CSOs also expressed frustration over the slow progress of implementation especially on CSO enabling environment commitments.</div>
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<div>CPDE Co-Chair and IBON International Director Antonio Tujan, Jr. particularly mentioned the failure of development actors to create an enabling environment for CSOs and further pushed for the HLM communiqué to make reference to ‘shrinking CSO spaces.’</div>
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<div>“Our overall assessment is that two years after these [Busan] commitments were made, there is lack of political will to implement the overall agenda, and progress is undeniably slow,” said CPDE Co-Chair and PIANGO Executive Director Emele Duituturaga during her presentation in the session on inclusive development and progress since Busan.</div>
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<div>“Let’s keep the promise of Busan at the forefront of our minds, lest we forget,” she reminded.</div>
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<div>During the communiqué consultations, Tujan demanded ‘stronger wording’ on the full implementation of Accra and Paris commitments. He also pointed out the need for an Action Plan that will accelerate the implementation of Busan agreements.</div>
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<div>Among other issues, Tujan also raised the possibility of a non-executive co-chair in the GPEDC that will represent civil society, parliamentarians, the private sector and other non-governmental development actors. The presence of a non-executive co-chair, according to Tujan, would make the leadership of the Global Partnership ‘truly inclusive.’</div>
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<div>The outcome of the Asia-Pacific consultation is set to feed into the Communiqué that will be agreed by heads of governments, civil society representatives, United Nations officials, business leaders and international organisations in Mexico City on April 15-16.</div>
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<div><em> This was first posted on the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness website on March 19, 2014.</em></div>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-theme field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Theme:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/themes/aid-and-development-effectiveness" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Aid and development effectiveness</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/themes/sectors-and-movements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sectors and movements</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-global-region field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Global Region:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/global-regions/asia-pacific" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Asia &amp; Pacific</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/cpde" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CPDE</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/csos" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CSOs</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/consultation" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">consultation</a></div></div></div>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:25:16 +0000PCU Staff2225 at http://iboninternational.orghttp://iboninternational.org/article/2014/03/asia-pacific-csos-express-concern-over-shrinking-civil-society-space-strong-private#commentsIBON Int’l Director shares CSO concerns on upcoming GPEDC high-level meeting http://iboninternational.org/article/2014/03/ibon-int%E2%80%99l-director-shares-cso-concerns-upcoming-gpedc-high-level-meeting
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div><strong><em>Tujan interview on Youtube</em></strong></div>
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<div>IBON International Director Antonio Tujan Jr shares some insights and concerns in an interview after the recent 5th Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) Steering Committee (SC) Meeting.</div>
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<div>The 5th GPEDC-SC meeting, held on February 13-14 in Abuja, Nigeria, is intended to prepare for the upcoming High Level Meeting (HLM) of the GPEDC in Mexico City on 15-16 April this year. Mr. Tujan and Roselynn Musa attended the SC meeting as co-chairs of the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE), the global civil society platform engaged in the GPEDC process in line with their advocacy for development effectiveness. Matt Simonds also attended as one of two ITUC CSO Observer. </div>
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<div>To view their interviews in Youtube, please click on the respective links below:</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRsRkoEVux4">CPDE Co-Chair Antonio Tujan Jr. Interview</a></div>
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<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3qY1w5-LJw">CPDE Co-Chair Roselynn Musa Interview</a></div>
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<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lJDCUlsD2I">ITUC CSO Observer Matt Simonds Interview</a></div>
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<div>For further information on the CPDE, visit the following social media sites:</div>
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<div>Youtube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/CSOPartnership">www.youtube.com/CSOPartnership</a></div>
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<div>Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/CSOPartnership_">www.twitter.com/CSOPartnership_</a></div>
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<div>LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/CSOPartnership">http://www.linkedin.com/company/cso-partnership-for-development-effectiveness</a></div>
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<div>Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/CSOPartnerships">www.facebook.com/CSOPartnerships</a></div>
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<div>For further questions and queries, email <a href="mailto:comms@csopartnership.org">comms@csopartnership.org</a> or <a href="mailto:secretariat@csopartnership.org">secretariat@csopartnership.org</a></div>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-theme field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Theme:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/themes/aid-and-development-effectiveness" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Aid and development effectiveness</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/themes/sectors-and-movements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sectors and movements</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-global-region field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Global Region:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/global-regions/latin-america" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Latin America</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/csos" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CSOs</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/gpedc" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">GPEDC</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/cpde" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CPDE</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/mexico" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mexico</a></div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 06:24:43 +0000PCU Staff2220 at http://iboninternational.orghttp://iboninternational.org/article/2014/03/ibon-int%E2%80%99l-director-shares-cso-concerns-upcoming-gpedc-high-level-meeting#comments